Overview
- Funeral services were held on September 30 at Paris’s Église Saint‑Roch, drawing several hundred mourners from the public and the arts.
- Attendees included Yvan Attal, Nicolas Bedos, Georges Beller, Catherine Jacob, former culture minister Jack Lang, presenter Nikos Aliagas, Culture Minister Rachida Dati, and Île‑de‑France president Valérie Pécresse.
- The coffin entered to Ennio Morricone’s theme from Once Upon a Time in the West, reflecting one of Cardinale’s signature roles in Sergio Leone’s 1968 film.
- A black‑and‑white 1959 photograph displayed at the altar echoed the image used for the 70th Cannes Film Festival poster.
- Her daughter thanked Tunisia for a mass in La Goulette, while the family asked for donations to the Claudia Cardinale Foundation and announced a mass in Nemours on Wednesday followed by a private cremation on Thursday.